thread: 2015-03-23 : The Vengeful Demon of the Ring as a Con Game
On 2015-03-23, Weeks wrote:
1. Yes.
2. Yes; it is entirely clear what you mean.
3. Not enough information. Assuming a large body of demon players who have been thus notified, some will be players and some will not. Being a player requires participation. I think some congoers will keep that in the back of their mind, looking for secret stuff and it might be reasonable to call them players. Those who forget all about it, or are otherwise oblivious to their use as a tool for the game, are not players.
This makes VB go "Thanks!"
Does participation require informedness? Is there such thing as an unwitting participant?
This makes CW go "More so."
Play feels entirely active. Participation feels active, but not as. One who happens to stand where a flash mob congregates isn't a participant.
This makes VB go "I ask because..."
I believe that if I'd started this whole thing with "unwitting participant," almost the exact same group of you would be arguing that there's no such thing, participants must be witting.
This makes CW go "Yeah, maybe; for the same reasons."
